Sentence examples for are sediment from inspiring English sources
noun
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
There are sediment layers with few bones, followed by layers with many bones — indicating, Dr. Johnson said, that the lake may have multiple stories to tell.
Chief among these are sediment regime alteration, thermal regime alteration, and channel hydraulic features in re-regulated reaches.
The upstream 12 km of the PRRP are sediment starved, the channel has been laterally stable, and this condition may not be consistent with large-scale project objectives.
(A.5 where q s and q b are sediment volume fluxes for bed load and suspended load, respectively; both are all functions of the sediment grain size, relative density of the sediment and the local water depth (van Rijn, 1993).
Underneath the permafrost there are sediments full of methane hydrates.
The magnetized beads are sedimented and washed repeatedly.
Tailings are sediments resulting from settling of ore's wastes.
The protein of interest is sedimented in one bucket of the swinging bucket rotor, and protein standards of known S (Table 5) are sedimented in a separate (or sometimes the same) gradient.
For example, if molecules are sedimenting too fast, diffusion information may be limited, which will degrade the results.
Another important feature in sedimentation process is sediment supply.
This relationship between sedimentation and tectonics is sediment supply-driven.
